gestate
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It's surrogacy, or the practice in which someone with a uterus agrees to gestate and deliver a baby on the behalf of other parents.
From Salon • Feb. 4, 2024
Fujii said female otters gestate for about six months and then keep their young for another six months before weaning them.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2023
They will then try to create an embryo carrying that modified DNA that could gestate in an African elephant “surrogate” or an artificial uterus.
From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2022
“Even if we got it genetically perfect, we are still going to have to gestate it in a different species, so why would you think it would be exactly the same?”
From Science Magazine • Mar. 9, 2022
The girls can't gestate in that climate, at least not until they've been there long enough to get their glands adjusted.
From PRoblem by Nourse, Alan Edward
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